Blank Excel file

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Christine O

Hi folks,

Need a little help here. One of my users had an Excel file that became
corrupted. The file is 200kb, but when you open it, it comes up blank.
No worksheets, no nothing. I tried viewing it full screen. No luck. Is
there anything I can do to recover the data? It is Excel 2000.

I Googled Usenet and came up with similar problems, but they didn't
have answers or were solved with a back up, which my user doesn't
have. We can get a back up from tape, but that would take about a day.

Thanks,
Christine
 
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Cheryle

Not to say it will work, but try opening the file with
another program. When this happened to me, I used
Internet explorer to open it and was able to save it
again and go from there. Before opening the file, do a
right click on it and see if you have a "open with"
option, if so try some other programs and see if that
works.
Cheryle
 
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Christine O

Hi JE,

No, it is not hidden. When I open the file, there is no save as
either. All the choices under Window are grayed out.

I did manage to open the doc with Excel 97 Viewer, but the user tells
me that the cells aren't referencing correctly anymore.

Thanks,
Christine
 
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Christine O

That's a good idea Cheryle, I did manage to get it to open in Word,
but everything was messed up. Excel 97 Viewer worked somewhat, but the
user tells me that the cells aren't referencing correctly anymore.

Thanks,
Christine
 
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Norman Hinds

Hi Christine,

Try http://www.fdrlab.com
They can recover corrupted Excel files (incuding password protected
with all contained information, including comments, VBA, charts, link
etc.
No one software can do this completely.

Good Luck
 
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Christine O

Try http://www.fdrlab.com
They can recover corrupted Excel files (incuding password protected)
with all contained information, including comments, VBA, charts, links
etc.
No one software can do this completely.

Good Luck!
Click to expand...

Thanks Norman, I'll run that by management as a future resource. We
pulled a back up from tape from the 14th and 15th and that seemed to
be satisfactory for now - it was missing some information still, but
the managers filled it in.

Best,
Christine
 
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